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J P M

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  1. J P M
    It looks like it has done a lot of work in the last fifty years. Nice find Bill
  2. J P M
    It is not from a strike error just a scratch.
  3. J P M
    Sorry to say it looks like it has been damaged by some kind of tool.
  4. J P M
    It happens to me to don't feel bad, I just have to remember to look at the date. I think a lot of them get opened by internet Bots.
  5. J P M
    This is an old thread. Why would you reopen it with a comment?
  6. J P M
    2009 P+D are not easy to find at all. Even at coin shops and auctions.
  7. J P M
    I see the coin you have posted has many marks of circulation and wear. The members here do not work for NGC they are seasoned collectors like you, giving their honest opinions. I do see something under the mint mark but I do not think it is a RPM.
  8. J P M
    I thought you could not sell privately, items you had listed on eBay.
  9. J P M
    Well seeing we are making corrections wasn't the title of your book (From Mine to Mint). Roger?
  10. J P M
    Sorry I see no coin to comment on.
  11. J P M
    Someone posted a coin that had scratches from someone that had wiped the coin before encapsulating it ..................So they said anyway ..., You could see the fine lines from a quick wipe. Not sure who did the wipe.
  12. J P M
    This coin does show a lot of plating issues. Even if it was a crack, with the stain I see on the reverse it is still only worth one cent.
  13. J P M
    Thanks for the comment. I find sometimes people do not like to speculate. I found the coin as is and less than a year old and just put it in the bag with the others. I also think it is a posable experiment because the overall toning is perfectly even. It is not like a coin that was laying on the dirt, where one side would be different than the other with posable surface scratches. However now that 23 years have passed, I do notice some pitting in the fields that I did not see when I put it away.
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    There may have been a process of lowering the force of the strike on purpose as the die got older to help get more life out of it. If you look at how many VAM's are out there you can see they had an issue with dies breaking on every year. So, most of the the first strikes coins will always look good. Then as time passes the later strikes even if they did not change the force would still be a weaker strike just from usage.
  15. J P M
    The coin is very common and looks to have been in circulation. I would say XF maybe, worth one dollar
  16. J P M
    Sounds like a worthy project Mike ,I hope you can make it work for you and others.
  17. J P M
    Congrats Mike. Looks like your grandpa may have had some cool stuff.
  18. J P M
    We had a post a while back where someone had a 2021 morgan they submitted it as a new coin hoping for a MS70.. The coin came back as cleaned. It was said to have been wiped at the mint before receiving the coin.
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    Going through some old coin finds this weekend. I have owned this coin for 23 years. It looks like a old copper cent. The coin is 88.5% copper. The toning is the same as the day I found it. You can see that it has very little wear. I had it in a bag with other 2000 Sac, coins. You can see where it had a couple of small hits where the gold color is showing under the brown tone. The question of the day is why did this coin tone in the first year of issue? There are stories of this coin having problems with the new metal mix of the coin. Also, a story of an experimental dip used to keep the coin stable, conducted at the mint. Feel free to say what you think it may or may not be. I thought it may be a good one to speculate on for Holiday fun.
  20. J P M
    There was a time in the past when it was acceptable to clean a coin. It was later determined that it was not a good idea to clean coins.
  21. J P M
    Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all.
  22. J P M
    It is hard to say ungraded may be worth $1 to $5 each in a Third party slab a MS68 may be worth $40 to $80. There are many of these out there already graded for cheap money. In the original roll it may be worth more to a collector.
  23. J P M
    It is not easy to tell from the photo. If it is a raised line, it could be a crack it could also be a plating issue. It is a cool find but not worth a premium. still fun to find stuff like this.
  24. J P M
    I have many low MS Morgans that have lots of marks and dings. I think it is the graders over all opinion of what is acceptable. I know I have a bunch of coins that I never would have graded as high as they are labeled.
  25. J P M
    Van Dyke was my first choice, but I thought it may be too old for some members. LoL